Motivational Quotes

Government

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Government

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us.

President Barack Obama

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Rostand, Jean

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Harry S Truman

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

George W. Bush

Any government is potentially the worst client in the world you could ever possibly want to have.

Thomas Heatherwick

The basis of effective government is public confidence.

Kennedy, John F.

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.

Lawson, Nigel

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

William H. Borah

10.

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.

Bob Wells

11.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Richard M. Nixon

12.

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Tuchman, Barbara

13.

For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways -- to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.

Herbert, A. P.

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An ambassador is an honest person sent to lie abroad for their country.

Wotton, Sir Henry

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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Johnson, Samuel

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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

The Athenians govern the Greeks; I govern the Athenians; you, my wife, govern me; your son governs you.

Themistocles

20.

The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.

Melbourne, Lord

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Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

Herodotus

22.

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.

Macaulay, Thomas B.

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The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

25.

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Mirabeau, Comte De

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That state is best ordered when the wicked have no command, and the good have.

Pittacus

27.

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

Welch, Robert

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The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life -- this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

O'Rourke, P. J.

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In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

Einstein, Albert

30.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

Solon

31.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

Nepos, Cornelius

32.

Office without pay makes thieves.

Proverb, German

33.

It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.

Gladstone, William E.

34.

Any cook should be able to run the country.

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich

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An educated people can be easily governed.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

Dulles, John Foster

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Government is not reason and it is not eloquence. It is force! Like fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Washington, George

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Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

Voltaire

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It is easy to rule over the good.

Plautus, Titus Maccius

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It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Gardner, John W.

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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

Mills, C. Wright

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The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.

Reston, James

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.

Balzac, Honore De

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Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Truman, Harry S

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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

Voltaire

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A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

Bismarck, Otto Von

48.

In our consumer confidence surveys, we ask people whether they think government economic policy is good, fair, or poor. Increasingly, the answer we get is just plain laughter.

Schmiedeskamp, Jay

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Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you.

Kocher, Gerhard